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#ScienceSaturday posts share relevant and exciting scientific news with the KAND community, and are compiled by Alejandro Doval. Alejandro is from Spain and serves as Team Leader of the KIF1A.ORG parent-led Research Engagement Team. Send news suggestions to our team at impact@kif1a.org.

Written in September 2019, Anouk shares her powerful journey from devastation to resilience after her daughter, Lhassa, was diagnosed with KIF1A Associated Neurological Disorder. “You have become my inspiration. My best teacher ever. A philosopher ignoring her talent. You give me the energy to fight for you and other children like you.”

#ScienceSaturday posts share relevant and exciting scientific news with the KAND community, and are compiled by Alejandro Doval. Alejandro is from Spain and serves as Team Leader of the KIF1A.ORG parent-led Research Engagement Team. Send news suggestions to our team at impact@kif1a.org. KIF1A-Related Research Tracking Down the Fast and Superprocessive KIF1A with Gold Scattering Microscopy Dr. Allison Gicking…

#ScienceSaturday posts share relevant and exciting scientific news with the KAND community, and are compiled by Alejandro Doval. Alejandro is from Spain and serves as Team Leader of the KIF1A.ORG parent-led Research Engagement Team. Send news suggestions to our team at impact@kif1a.org. What Is KIF1A? Has your family recently received a KIF1A diagnosis? You’ve likely entered a whole…

#ScienceSaturday posts share relevant and exciting scientific news with the KAND community, and are compiled by Alejandro Doval. Alejandro is from Spain and serves as Team Leader of the KIF1A.ORG parent-led Research Engagement Team. Send news suggestions to our team at impact@kif1a.org. KIF1A-Related Research New Genetic Causes of Rett Syndrome Found in Chinese Infants, Study Reports The team…

#ScienceSaturday posts share relevant and exciting scientific news with the KAND community, and are compiled by Alejandro Doval. Alejandro is from Spain and serves as Team Leader of the KIF1A.ORG parent-led Research Engagement Team. Send news suggestions to our team at impact@kif1a.org. KIF1A-Related Research Looking Back & Marching Forward According to PubMed.gov, researchers published 28 papers in 2019…

#ScienceSaturday posts share relevant and exciting scientific news with the KAND community, and are compiled by Alejandro Doval. Alejandro is from Spain and serves as Team Leader of the KIF1A.ORG parent-led Research Engagement Team. Send news suggestions to our team at impact@kif1a.org. Research Matters: KIF1A Families Have a Message for Congress Read the full statement from the KIF1A.ORG…

KIF1A Families and Friends across the United States: On Friday, December 6, we launched an urgent message to Members of U.S. Congress regarding NIH research funding that rare disease communities like ours are depending on for life-changing and life-saving treatment. There is a very real chance that money allocated to researching rare diseases like KIF1A…

#ScienceSaturday posts share relevant and exciting scientific news with the KAND community, and are compiled by Alejandro Doval. Alejandro is from Spain and serves as Team Leader of the KIF1A.ORG parent-led Research Engagement Team. Send news suggestions to our team at impact@kif1a.org.

Members of Congress, We are waiting for NIH funding, but our children who are battling a rare neurodegenerative disorder are running out of time. The continuing resolution that the NIH is currently operating under harms the rare disease community by blocking critical funding for scientific research. We need you to pass a full-year budget that…